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From: hpeyerl@novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
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Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux
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Date: 11 Nov 1993 23:31:31 GMT
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cajho@uno.edu wrote:
: Examples please of things you do in FreeBSD that one cannot do in Linux.  I'd
: be interested in hearing about these, as I have a fairly maxed-out system.
: Lukewarm?  In what respects?

I don't know about FreeBSD but there's things I can do with NetBSD that
can't be done with Linux.  The relevance of which is going to be different
for everyone:

Run it on a Mac
Run it on an Amiga
Run it on an hp300
Run it on a pc532
Run it on a Sparc
(plus all the other platforms that are coming)
Run Sun-OS binaries.
Run real shared libraries.
(And some other things I can't remember now :-> )

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